“Reading can take us places.” This is one of the famous lines that we know about reading. Many people love to read because it is one source of information. It is even a source of happiness to some because with it, one can feel and do anything. The importance of reading has been spread from one generation to another by just making it a daily habit before sleeping or just to kill time.
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The variety of subjects to read is infinite. From reading the newspaper in the morning, doing research in the library for homework, to just finding a good novel which you think can relieve your tension and be in another world, a person can surely find the perfect one. Whatever it is, it can surely make or break anyone’s idea.
Holding a book, sitting on a chair, and taking down notes inside the library are the best way to describe the traditional reading. We read each word while choosing which one can help us or we can relate to. Some also do highlighting to give importance to some words, phrase or sentences. But this type of reading grows as decades passed by. Even the place where people read became coffee or internet shops instead of library.
Technology has developed the kind of reading that people are used to doing. A book on a hand two decades ago became computers, tablets and even cellular phones today. The true words printed on each page before became downloadable and can now be read on the screen. Without going in the library or bookstore, a person can read a lot of things straight from a gadget.
Change will forever be the only constant thing in the world. Anything can change as years go by. With technology, almost everything became instant that anyone can read his or her favorite novel right after few clicks. This is good when it comes to pleasure reading but it may not be good when it comes to academic reading. Some children nowadays neither read books nor go to the nearest library for their homework. Instead, they surf the internet, type the question and ask google, bing or yahoo, then copy and paste whatever it is that is written there without even reading it.
Development is good so as the growth of the technology. The only thing people should learn is how to use it properly. Though the form of reading may change from one generation to the next, people should not forget that it is one of the best things a person should enjoy and learn from.
